So basically what you're suggesting is something close to a pyramid scheme?

There's also a difference between "can not" and "cannot".
"Can not" means that copyrighting APIs is optional. "Cannot" means that APIs are not copyrightable.

I have a feeling this wouldn't work in America. The basis for government isn't trust, but fear. As someone who's lived in Finland all his life, I have to tell you the reason any of our "socialism" (!!!) and national resident registry with IDs for everybody works, is because people in office aren't fucking around, at least that much, at least yet. There is a strict culture of disdain for screwing up here in Finland, so if you're the chief of police of some town and are caught drunk driving, you're busted, doesn't matter what your status is. People in power are in power because they're servants of the public and have a responsibility, not because they're privileged little kings. This is probably the reason why we come #1 in corruption rankings as the least corrupt country.

If I were an American, and the government introduced a national registry for citizens and gave everybody an ID, I would be very suspicious and would be against it, at least if it were being implemented at a federal level. Here, though, I have no problem with it and honestly it just helps things so much, like not having to waste time when moving by telling everybody about your new address, because you can just change your address online at the population registry, and this address will be updated to all utility companies, etc. whose services you use and also the postal service. That national ID is also used for taxation, voting, medical records, etc. everything useful.

Because to those that the Web == the Internet, smartphone == an iPhone.

Okay, I would agree with you if this was about a law here in Finland or in the UK where I stay most of the time, where that's consistent with the government culture in that country, but NOT in the US. The spirit of the constitution and country is clearly minimum government intervention in private life, including nanny state behavior, regardless of whether it supposedly promotes better behavior.

Few wars aren't resource wars.

It's unfortunate that so many of my peers seem to blindly allow any kind of Facebook script/application run even if it requires the ability to post under your name, spreading spam like this. I have to admit I've clicked on a few of these links sometimes, those along the lines of "biggest boobs ever! Must watch" out of curiosity, only to be redirected to a malicious app at which point I just left the page.

The same goes for these new, legitimate news readers that tell which articles your friends read on Guardian for example, and clicking on the link leads to an app requesting permission to spy on me. No thanks, I'll just Google the damn title of the article if it's that hard to give me a direct link, ffs.

I'm not sure who or what the persons are who do this, but as someone with around 300 Facebook friends, I've received at least 5 friend requests from dummy profiles (fake name, fake profile pic, awfully "sterile" personal info) with an oddly high number of mutual friends. I doubt it was any of our teachers as they use their real profiles and friended us if they wished to, including our principal. Could it be some sort of a bot for harvesting personal information that would otherwise be inaccessible to non-friends, or just a stalker from within my/my friends' social circle who's trying to remain anonyous?

Linus' native language is Swedish.

How dumb do you have to be to get a botnet infection? You have to be even dumber not to notice the increased network activity if you were infected.

What's www.piratebay.com? Do you mean THEPIRATEBAY.ORG and if so, why wait for public trackers when you can.. ugh.. nevermind. Do you think San Andreas or Vice City was any different? No, they've always had SecuROM with GTAs and I've always applied a crack to my legit purchases because I don't want to keep or swap discs in my drive.